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It makes total sense that J.K Rowling would choose to release more Harry Potter tales over the Christmas season, considering her original stories are by far the most festive of this era's popular young-adult fantasy series. (You don’t see Katniss popping on a Santa hat, do you?) The wizarding world is not only obsessed with ... More »

The first trailer for Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea emphasized the mystery and majesty of the open ocean — a fine angle, sure, but when you cast Chris Hemsworth in your sailing movie, you don't do it to see him give lengthy philosophical monologues. You cast Chris ... More »

He doesn't say so, but I have this feeling he's a chicken bake man. Chicken bakes are pretty underrated.

Over the next few weeks, Vulture will speak to the screenwriters behind 2014's most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. Which pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today we put that question to a very reluctant James Gunn, who admits ... More »

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Our senior art critic Jerry Saltz has long known the artist Oliver Wasow — the two met in the '80s, when Wasow used to run an art gallery in the East Village. These days, Wasow has become more well known for his humorous and playful found photography, which has drawn ... More »

This is an excerpt from Patton Oswalt's upcoming memoir, Silver Screen Fiend. Scroll to the bottom to hear a selection from the audiobook version. January 27, 1997: “Chevy Chase was born to play a clown who leads children into a gas oven!” That’s Bob Odenkirk, onstage at the Powerhouse Theatre ... More »

If there is one artist who has created an almost cultlike fascination around every dimension of his life, it would be Jean-Michel Basquiat. Most of us have seen how his meteoric rise as an artist was turned into a film by Julian Schnabel, starring Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat and David Bowie as ... More »

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Sons of Anarchy will air its series finale tonight, and one big question remains: Who will die? Up to this point, the show's managed to kill off so many characters, we half think they'll just slaughter the rest and cut to black. But before the bloodbath begins, see if you ... More »

The end is nigh, and if you’ve been paying attention to these last seven seasons, the events of the Sons of Anarchy series finale, whatever they are, shouldn’t be a total shocker. Here’s a chance to test your memory of all things SAMCRO, and see which story lines you may ... More »

Another year in the books, everyone! This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics' top-ten lists. Enjoy. 1. Frankie Cosmos, Zentropy Modern life is a shouting match. This isn’t exactly news, of course, but something about 2014 felt like a breaking point — the year society’s collective caps-lock button got jammed. In ... More »

If you want a blatant visual metaphor for how much Bill Cosby's star has been tarnished by the dozens of sexual-assault allegations against him, look no further than the comedian's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which someone wrote "rapist" all over. Judging by the purple marker, every instance of ... More »

"When people come to visit the Criterion Collection, their first stop is often the art department," writes Criterion Collection president Peter Becker in the introduction to the film company's new coffee table book, Criterion Designs. "We have a white wall covered with metallic paint and magnets where we put up the ... More »

Picture the scene: On January 20, 2037, Armando Pérez is being sworn in as the 48th president of the United States, with his wife, Amethyst Amelia Pérez, by his side. His three-piece suit is impeccably tailored, and his bald head shines as bright as the day he was born, but ... More »

Conan hosted a Sons of Anarchy–themed show last night, paying tribute to the FX series during its last season. To say farewell, he even created a tribute to what is arguably the best part of SOA: Charlie Hunnam's naked back. It's wonderful:Let's get Conan into the last season somehow. He's ... More »

With all this talk about Taylor Swift's birth year (1989, in case you are currently stuck behind a rock), we're reminded again and again that she's only 24 years old. And just 12 years ago, she was a 12-year-old singing the national anthem at a Detroit Pistons game in her ... More »

Considering the influence 1970s conspiracy thrillers had on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it’s not too much of a stretch for someone to reimagine the Marvel sequel as an ’80s action movie. However, Frank Ireland goes a step or two further, recutting the film as a grainy trailer for the home-video release of a B-movie […]

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I've received some incredible submissions for the annual Halloween costume roundup. Keep 'em coming! I just wanted to highlight this awesome submission from a reader named Robert -- you might remember from last year as "Asian Jon Snow" -- who takes Halloween pretty darn seriously. Here he is as Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, plus his trusty dog Dubu as the one and only Rocket Raccoon. Freaking awesome.

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What’s better than Gone Girl? Well, Gone Girl reenacted entirely by kittens, for one thing (inexplicably, there are also a few Barbie dolls). The video from the Pet Collective is an impressive 137 seconds long and hits all the major beats of the film, from the diary entries to the ... More »

Panel from the Marvel Boy story "The Screaming Tomb!" in Astonishing #4 (June 1951); script (?), pencils, inks, and letters by Bill Everett

There’s a moment three-quarters of the way through the first act of The Fortress of Solitude, a new musical based on the Jonathan Lethem novel, when all of the show’s developing threads combine and resolve in a marvelous sequence called “Take Me to the Bridge.” By this point we have ... More »

Hannibal is a show all about intricacies, from the conversations between the characters to the way each murder tableaux is handled with painstaking detail. But the most intricate part of the whole series might be the food preparation. At the PaleyFest panel for Hannibal, the cast and creator Bryan Fuller ... More »

Aziz Ansari visited Sesame Street to explain the word ridiculous, which involved silly hats and standing on your head. Next up? Feminism. Good luck, Aziz!  ... More »

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Anyway, if my grandmother were still around, she'd have probably progressed to these chips. If you are one of those people that hate microwaves, well you may want to look away now because there is obviously a microwave involved. All you do is mandolin the chips are finely as you can and then microwave them on high for a few minutes. How long you cook them for is related to how thin you slice them.

Last night, as part of the Paley Center's PaleyFest NY, Vulture's Jesse David Fox moderated a delightful panel for the delightful Bob's Burgers. The panel featured Loren Bouchard (Bob's Burgers' creator), Jim Dauterive (executive producer), H. Jon Benjamin (the voice of Bob), John Roberts (the voice of Linda), Kristen Schaal ... More »

In the week after Gone Girl opened at the top of the box office with a robust $37 million, Naomi Wolf, the author of The Beauty Myth and onetime political advisor most famous for questioning Al Gore’s alpha-maleness, posted a series of, to say the least, questionable conspiratorial rantings on Facebook. ... More »